Archaeology Is My Anti-Emo

[researchgrrrl]

Been too damned long since I had a chance to pass along some of the fun stuff that I've been reading. How 'bout I fix that?

More Ancient Hills Discovered in Burnt City

As some of y'all may remember from an earlier entry, Burnt City is one of the coolest and most important archaeological sites in Iran. I'm a big fan of it, in part because women

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[raincitygirl]

Such cool links.

[researchgrrrl]

I was way overdue on sharing the archaeology love. I was also so vastly entertained with my little sidetrips into WTF?Land as I discovered a wealth of utterly insane pages dedicated to amazingly woo-woo speculation about archaeological finds and whatnot. I may have to do an entry just on links showing the facts alongside links to the fabulously cracked-out interpretations going on out there.

I mean, for serious, what's not to love about an author who can connect an underwater excavation in China to Machu Picchu, Atlantisc, and UFOs?

[z_rayne]

Putting this in my memories; archaeology geekery is always fun. *g*

[researchgrrrl]

I was startled to realize how many weeks had passed since I last geeked out here over my archaeology reading. I may do another round of this kind of linkage later this week to make up for a little of the time I've spent nattering on other things.

I'm really happy you liked this set. I was vastly entertained and interested by all of this, as well.

[namastenancy]

Utterly fabulous set of links which I have now shared with tons of people. I'm thinking of you always and lit a candle today in church, asking for protection for my "friends of the heart." I am sure that She who knows all will realize that this included LJ friends as well.

[researchgrrrl]

So glad I could pass along some fun links! I've been loving your current series of art entries although I've had regretably little time to comment. I hope you'll continue to share and archive your work on your journal. It's wonderful to see. (I'd recced your Jenny Saville essay a few weeks ago, btw. Lovely and thoughtful piece.)

And thank you for continuing to hold my family in your thoughts. We've got quite a stretch to get through and I know we all appreciate the prayers and good wishes.

[big_pink]

Today? Harmonic convergence. Specially loved the last link -- one of my honest-to-god RL jobs at the moment is doing research into PDA technologies for delivering museum tours. Cool. That and geocaching are totally on the top of my pile. Sweet dreams.

[researchgrrrl]

So glad we attained harmonic convergence this go 'round! I'll take that any day, baby. I'm also glad that last linked rocked your world, too. That sort of technology has the potential to turn into some wonderfully useful tools in archaeology, history, museology, and conservation.

And, seriously, I gotta look into this geocaching madness. I've been hearing about it for ages and it sounds like a blast.

[tsiankiio]

I live for your arch updates, especially since I spent six hours at the lab today, trying to kill the thesis of doom. Also wanted to ask you if you know Dave Stuart.

[researchgrrrl]

Man, six hours is a long time to be doing anything...especially thesis-slayage. How's that going? Making progress or just lots of strangled sounds?

I knew a couple of Daves while I was at A&M. The one who most readily comes to mind was a student of Donny Hamilton's. I remember him because he and Donny found some random site online where you could get ordained as an actual minister in that particular "church." The thing was, if you got fifteen other people to get ordained, you were automatically elevated to the status of Saint in that church. Donny and Dave got in a competition to see which of 'em could become a saint first. I got hauled into it by Donny. (His plan was to become Saint Leon the Conservator. AWESOME.) Is this by chance the same Dave of whom you speak?

[tsiankiio]

If it is him, I will laugh SO HARD, I'll have to ask him about it tomorrow. He's teaching out here, and just got back from summer field school. Our Dave did his dis on maritime imagery in graveyards, not sure what the thesis was on, but he did both of them at A&M, so he was there forever.

I made the mistake of being present when the field school kids showed up, and go hauled into cleaning the boats and vans, and am now covered in mud and soaking wet. Ah, field work :)

[researchgrrrl]

Let me know if you get the chance. I'm curious if he's the same Dave now, too.

And, yeah. Cleaning up after field work. *sigh* Such memories.